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title: Dogs and cats hide on fireworks night because their hearing is far m… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs and cats hide on fireworks night because their hearing is far more sensitive than ours and they do not understand the sudden bangs. Who acts: Dogs, hearing. A sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 10

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Dogs and cats hide on fireworks night because their hearing is far more sensitive than ours and they do not understand the sudden bangs.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, hearing · **What happens:** hide, be, not understand, hear · **To what, where:** sudden bangs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, hearing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.lesson:10
# text = Dogs and cats hide on fireworks night because their hearing is far more sensitive than ours and they do not understand the sudden bangs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bangs	bang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Dogs and cats |  |  |  | night |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Dogs's hearing |  |  |  |  | than ours; sensitive *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | Dogs *= dog* | the sudden bangs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bang=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** |  | Dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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